ASA BOLT EPD

[ AMF-CAF-D2F-DDF-M1F-NHF-OHF-OSF-RDF ]

Number 5 Hair Shedding score EPD, Number 7 $Grid value index, Number 8 Calving Ease Direct score EPD and Residual Average Daily Gain EPD and Number 12 Marbling score EPD as of the May 22, 2026 NCE update.

Rito Hustler, the flush brother to Rito Ambitious who works with their $230,000 valued dam in the Byrd program sired the $30,000 top selling fall yearling bull of the record setting 2025 Byrd sale from his VERY FIRST calf crop that also included a $50,000 fall yearling heifer and as the largest sire group of the sale offering, the 21 fall yearling sons of Rito Hustler sold for an average of $11,738 with 13 daughters sold for an average of $12,596.

Chosen by Ty Byrd as the top-selling bull of the Friendship Farms Dispersal, Hustler combines phenotype, genotype and convenience traits in one of the most complete packages the Angus breed has ever seen, a 10% semen share sold for $100,000 in the Fall 2023 Byrd Embryo and Semen Auction to give Hustler a total valuation of $1,000,000.

With an astounding adjusted %IMF score of 9.38 to ratio 121, Hustler follows the genetic trend of his valuable young dam who has nine progeny ultrasound scanned with an average %IMF ratio of 123 and she joined the Byrd donor herd as the top-selling fall pair of the Friendship Farms Dispersal at $24,000 with two tremendous full sisters also working for Ty and Dan Byrd

At the 2024 National Finals Angus sale in Las Vegas, a full sister to the Rito Hustler sold half interest for $125,000 to earn a total value of $250,000 and the first live daughter of Hustler to sell at auction commanded a bid of $80,000 for half interest to give her a valuation of $160,000 to rank as the third high selling open heifer and fourth high valued live female of this record-setting showcase event with another Hustler daughter sold in the 2024 Wilks Ranch sale at less than 45 days of age for $200,000 to Express, Maple Lane and Nowatzke with a flush sister to that calf selling for $165,000 to Gabriel in the 2025 Wilks Female Sale with their flush brother selling two thirds interest for $160,000 to Grimmius to top the 2025 Wilks Fall Bull sale and another daughter sold half interest for $90,000 as the top selling open heifer of the 2025 Brumfield Angus sale.

FF Rito Ambitious, a flush brother to Hustler, topped the final Friendship bull sale a few weeks after the dispersal when he sold for $235,000 to Express, Maple Lane/Nowatzke, Pollard, Riverbend and Spruce Mountain sold 51 semen packages from him for $510,000 with heifer pregnancies sired by him topping sale across the continent and the genomic-enhanced EPD data from his first progeny are rising to stratospheric levels. 

Ultra-elite top 1% $Grid value index and Marbling score EPD, elite top 2% $Beef value index and $Combined value index, elite top 3% Hair Shedding score EPD, top 10% percent Heifer Pregnancy EPD, top 15% Claw set score EPD and Residual Average Daily Gain EPD, top 20% Calving Ease Direct score EPD and better than breed average foot Angle score EPD, weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD and Pulmonary Arterial Pressure score EPD and designed to sire Prime on Purpose as of the May 22, 2026 NCE update.